Folding crib



(No Model.)

H. GREENWOOD.

FOLDING GRIB.

Patented May 9, 1-882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT GREENWOOD, OF EAST TEMPLETON, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND MICHAELKEATING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOLDING CRIB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,490, dated May 9,1882,

Application filed March 20, 1582. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT GREENWOOD, of East Templeton, in the countyof Worcester, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Folding Cribs; and I do hereby declare the same tobe described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a sideelevation, Fig. 3 an end view, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of afolding crib containing my invention, such figures showing it in anelevated state for being used with suitable bedding. Fig. 5 is atransverse section of it in a depressed or folded state, or in acondition for it to be run or slid underneath a bedstead.

The nature of my invention is duly defined in the claims hereinafterpresented.

In the drawings, A represents a rectangular fence, composed of twoopen-frames, a b, and a series of connecting posts, 0, arranged asshown. Vithi'n this fence is a vertically-movable basket orbedding-holder, B, provided at 2 each of its opposite ends with twoears,d, to rest on the end pieces of thelower frame of the fence, such holderbeing suitably constructed to hold bedding as usually required forayoung child. There is pivoted to the ends of the up- 0 per frame of thefence A two leg-frames, C

and 1), each of which consists of two legs, 6, and a connecting'bar, f,arranged as represented. The two legs of the frame D cross, and arebetween and next those of the frame 5 C, and have catch-hooks g to hookupon studs h, projecting from the legs of such frame 0, all being as andarranged as represented. The bedding-holder at each end of it I usuallyfurnish with two wheels, k, to freely revolve on supporting-journals 'i,and project a short dis- 4o tance below it, (the said holder,) in orderthat when it is at its lowest position the wheels may rest on the floorand facilitate the movementof the crib into or out from the spaceunderneath a bedstead.

When the parts of the folding crilh are in a raised state, as shown inFigs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, they will be kept so, while the catch-hooks may beon the studs; but on raising the legframe I) so as to unhitch the hooksfrom the studs the whole crib may be depressed or reduced to the stateas represented in Fig. 5, in which case it 'will be seen that thebeddingholder or its wheels will be on the floor m and the fence willhave dropped downward, and, with one of the leg-frames, will also reston the floor. In this condition the crib may he slid underneath a bed orstored, as; occasion may require. The fence is to serve as a guard toprevent a child from falling out of the crib 6-) when the latter is in araised state.

I claim as my invention as follows, viz:

1. The combination of the rectangular fence and the two leg-framesarranged therewith,

, pivoted thereto, and provided with catch-hooks 6 5 and studs, allsubstantially and to operate as set forth. 7

2. The combination of the bedding-holder, provided with ears andarranged and movable, as described,within the rectangular fence, withsuch fence and the two leg-frames applied thereto, and provided withcatch-hooks and studs, all bein g essentially and to operate as setforth.

HERBERT GREENWOOD. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

